Oronde Miller is the Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Family and Child Well-Being. IFCWB is dedicated to telling the story of African American families and children that are and/or have been involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. This mission is accomplished largely through the Institute’s online information and resource center, www.ifcwb.org. Oronde’s educational and professional experience includes a broad focus on child development, education, and socialization, with a particular focus on the racial, cultural and social forces impacting African American child and family functioning in the United States.
This is to encourage you, Oronde, for all of the hard work that you are putting in to tell the story of the African-American people, more specifically African-American youth and families. With the ever-widening gap of the disproportionate representation of African-American children in the foster care system continuing to enlarge itself and at the same time being ignored by itself, it takes someone committed to make sure that the truth is getting disseminated so that the truth can set the people free. I know tha it can get discouraging sometimes to fight the good fight when it appears as if the masses would rather snub the obvious rather than address it. But you stay encouraged. The good Lord knows your heart and the desires you have therein shall be granted by Him. Continue the good fight of faith. I'm in your corner. Somebody has got to tell the story. I'm praying for you.
Pastor Anthony Harris, MSW, LSW, LADC, PhD Candidate-Sociology
New Dominion Christian Center
Las Vegas, Nevada